LIST OF HEMIPTERA TAKEN IN THE ADIRONDACK 



MOUNTAINS 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE 



During the past summer I had occasion to spend a few days 

 collecting Hemiptera about Lake Placid in the Adirondacks and 

 at the suggestion of Dr E. P. Felt I have gotten together some 

 brief notes on these, incorporating with them a few observations 

 I made in one day's collecting on the grounds of the Lake Placid 

 Club, Sep. 22, 1902, and adding the Hemiptera recorded from 

 Axton by Professor MacGillivray.^ My collecting at Lake Placid 

 the present season [1904] was included between Aug. 10 and 

 15 and embraced the following localities: one hour's work 

 near the railway station at Saranac Lake Junction between 

 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. while waiting for a train; one day's work 

 along the borders of a swampy woods immediately before 

 the Isham House; one day on and about Cobble hill, a rocky and 

 partially wooded elevation of about 600 feet behind the Forest 

 View House; one day and a half in the deep rich woods and along 

 the road between Isham's and Wilmington Notch extending as 

 far east as the bridge over the Ausable river; a little work in and 

 between showers in the woods about "Balance rock;" and one 

 half hour spent on the bald summit of Mt Whiteface with a few 

 things taken along the trail on its slopes. The weather was gen- 

 erally cold and rainy and much of my work was done in a chilling 

 mist driven by a cold north wind. With warm sunny weather 

 the results of the six days spent there would certainly have been 

 very different. As it was I took some interesting forms among 

 which were four that Professor Osborn considers new, the descrip- 

 tions of which he will publish shortly, and three or four others that 

 may prove to be still undescribed. 



A comparison of this list with the List of the Hemiptera of the 

 Muskoka Lake District of Canada published by me in the Canadian 

 Entomologist for 1889 will show that the faunas of these regions 

 are very similar and differ from that of western New York mostly 

 by the presence of such species asOncometopia costalis, 

 Philaenus lineatus, and Homoemus aenei- 

 f r o n s , species characteristic of a region of rocks and sand. 



*Ent. News. 14:263. 1903. 



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